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The Most Active Startup Acquirers Of The Past 3 Years Aren’t Always Who You’d Expect

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Companies that buy a lot of startups don’t always have a lot in common. Some are longstanding blue chip tech and pharmaceutical companies. Others are fast-growing venture-backed unicorns. And still others are more recent public market entrants looking to stay competitive in the age of AI. To get a sense of who’s buying in bulk, […]

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Swedish Legal Tech Startup Legora Triples Valuation To $5.55B With $550M Series D Led By Accel

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Legora, an AI platform built for lawyers, has raised $550 million in a Series D funding round, valuing the Swedish company at $5.55 billion. The valuation is a big jump from the $1.8 billion Legora achieved just last October, when it raised a $150 million Series C round. The company has now raised a total

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Exclusive: Rebar Lands $14M To Help HVAC Suppliers Generate Quotes Faster With AI

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Rebar, a startup building an AI operating system for commercial HVAC suppliers, has raised $14 million in a Series A funding round, it tells Crunchbase News exclusively. Prudence led the financing for the New York-based company. Zero Infinity Partners, Founder Collective, Villain Capital and Optimist Ventures also participated in the round. Founded in October 2024,

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Exclusive: Rebar Lands $14M To Help HVAC Suppliers Generate Quotes Faster With AI

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Rebar, a startup building an AI operating system for commercial HVAC suppliers, has raised $14 million in a Series A funding round, it tells Crunchbase News exclusively. Prudence led the financing for the New York-based company. Zero Infinity Partners, Founder Collective, Villain Capital and Optimist Ventures also participated in the round. Founded in October 2024,

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The Series B Pipeline Looks Refreshingly Diversified

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Before pulling data, one usually has a preconceived idea of what the results will show. In this case, looking at recent U.S. Series B investments, my assumption was that big rounds would be dominated by a few buzzy AI sectors. The reality, however, looks far more diversified. Startups securing the largest rounds run the gamut

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The Week’s 10 Biggest Funding Rounds: Space Tech, AI Infrastructure Lead Fundraises

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Want to keep track of the largest startup funding deals in 2025 with our curated list of $100 million-plus venture deals to U.S.-based companies? Check out The Crunchbase Megadeals Board. This is a weekly feature that runs down the week’s top 10 announced funding rounds in the U.S. Check out last week’s biggest funding deal

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Tim Draper On The AI Boom, Bitcoin’s Future And Building ‘Human Accelerators’

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Few venture capitalists have the name recognition — or tenure — of Tim Draper. A fixture in Silicon Valley for decades, Draper has built a reputation for bold, often contrarian bets that have yielded some of the industry’s most notable wins, including early investments in SpaceX, Tesla, Coinbase, Skype and Twitch. His career, which spans

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Science Corp., Another Braintech Startup Founded By Neuralink Alums, Raises $230M Series C

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Science Corp., a biotech startup focused on brain-computer interface technologies, announced Thursday that it has closed on a $230 million Series C fundraise. Lightspeed Venture Partners, Khosla Ventures, Y Combinator, IQT and Quiet Capital were among the investors participating in the syndicated round. With the latest financing, Science Corp. says it has now raised $489

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Exclusive: Founded By 2 Brothers In Their 20s, YC-Backed Denki Raises $4.1M To Automate Financial Audits

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Denki, which has built AI-powered software for financial auditors at public companies, has raised $4.1 million in funding, the startup tells Crunchbase News exclusively. Founded in 2025 by brothers Felipe Jin Li (24) and David Jin Li (20), San Francisco-based Denki aims to build “modern” infrastructure for financial audits, which verify that financial statements are

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Active Investors Spent More On Fewer Deals In February

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More money, fewer deals. That’s the broad direction for active startup investors of late. They’re increasingly concentrating capaital among generative AI heavy hitters and prominent unicorns, and making fewer small bets on unproven founders. February was perhaps the culmination of this trend. The month closed with the largest startup investment of all time — OpenAI’s

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